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Finally making headway on what will be used as the Nightmare Motorsports 10.5 race car for the 2010 season. The car is good friends Tom Nystrup. It's been a pretty standard street car since Tom has owned but is making the move to more race oriented. For those that don't know Tom he is the one guy that is my usual right hand man and vice versa. Tom will be piloting the car. And fwiw our local 10.5 class runs in the high 8's to low 9's consistently.
Tom handles the motor builds for the most part and I handle the fabrication and chassis work. Tom also handles having cars that run more then I do so that's why we are using his car. I'm not going to get real in depth with the specs on the motor but basically we're dealing with a big inch stroked Windsor in a 69 block, 11.5:1 compression, big solid roller cam, Edelbrock Vic. Jr heads and intake, and a Demon 850 carb. Power adder will be coming in the form of nitrous which is currently a simple plate setup.
HOWEVER, I have recently designed and patented a new nitrous nozzle that is for use with single plane carbed intakes (or retrofitted for EFI like the Spyders) that this car may see by Spring. I am going to be testing it out on the 69 first and if it looks like it's working out we will possibly try and get some race R&D done on this car.
Anyway, here's a few pics of that past weeks work. I fabbed up a sump for the stock gas tank that is complete and in the car. Got the Aeromotive A1000 and filters mounted and the -10 feed line and -8 return line rant to the Aeromotive regulator. I went ahead and did my usual smoothing and painting of the engine bay. Also relocated the fuse box in the fender well and all wiring. We also got the UPR k-member installed as well as a set of Cobra front brakes (ditched the ABS in the process). Tom has been keeping busy getting the motor all wrapped up as well as getting the battery box/cut off and nitrous bottle mounted up. Basically we are ready to drop the motor in at this point and fire it up. This winter I will be TIG'ing up a 12 point cage and possibly some mini tubs to really get the car hunkered down. Should have pics and vids of it running this week! Busy, busy,busy
Just cause I think it's worth mentioning here is how the car showed up at my shop
And AFTER I smoothed and painted the engine bay
Tom handles the motor builds for the most part and I handle the fabrication and chassis work. Tom also handles having cars that run more then I do so that's why we are using his car. I'm not going to get real in depth with the specs on the motor but basically we're dealing with a big inch stroked Windsor in a 69 block, 11.5:1 compression, big solid roller cam, Edelbrock Vic. Jr heads and intake, and a Demon 850 carb. Power adder will be coming in the form of nitrous which is currently a simple plate setup.
HOWEVER, I have recently designed and patented a new nitrous nozzle that is for use with single plane carbed intakes (or retrofitted for EFI like the Spyders) that this car may see by Spring. I am going to be testing it out on the 69 first and if it looks like it's working out we will possibly try and get some race R&D done on this car.
Anyway, here's a few pics of that past weeks work. I fabbed up a sump for the stock gas tank that is complete and in the car. Got the Aeromotive A1000 and filters mounted and the -10 feed line and -8 return line rant to the Aeromotive regulator. I went ahead and did my usual smoothing and painting of the engine bay. Also relocated the fuse box in the fender well and all wiring. We also got the UPR k-member installed as well as a set of Cobra front brakes (ditched the ABS in the process). Tom has been keeping busy getting the motor all wrapped up as well as getting the battery box/cut off and nitrous bottle mounted up. Basically we are ready to drop the motor in at this point and fire it up. This winter I will be TIG'ing up a 12 point cage and possibly some mini tubs to really get the car hunkered down. Should have pics and vids of it running this week! Busy, busy,busy
Just cause I think it's worth mentioning here is how the car showed up at my shop
And AFTER I smoothed and painted the engine bay
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